Mrs. Avocado, Seattle
Age and Occupation: 23, Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Consultant
Engagement Date: July 27, 2008
Wedding Date: October, 2008
Blogging Since: June 30, 2008
Venue: LDS Seattle Temple & Hotel 1000
About Me: Somehow this little farm girl found herself a genuine Pole to fall in love and eventually move away to Poland with. I am an LDS bride attempting to plan a private religious ceremony, ring ceremony, seated reception for 100, and an open house while coordinating for guests flying in from across the United States and as far away as Poland. I try to avoid fads, excess waste, and saturated fat. I strongly endorse photography, DDR, calorie counting, rss feeds, cooking, and utilizing your resources.
After a full week of absolute gluttony and decadence while on our Relaximoon, it was time for us to put on our wedding attire for the last time and pose as bride and groom. We had gone back and forth so many times about whether the hometown reception was a good idea, or even necessary, but now that it’s over I’m really glad we took the time to spend some time with the community that helped raise me.
I wish I had a camera in my hand as we drove up the road to the reception site. Our dear friends who hosted the party for us had sprinkled their property with lamps, torches, and twinkling lights. It looked magical. Guests were directed to park in a lot a few hundred yards from the house, and if they didn’t feel like walking (it was a cold October night!), they were escorted up to the house on golf carts.
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Feature Launched: January 29, 2009
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Wedding Bios
Feature Launched: September 12, 2008
About: Wedding bios of real brides.
Contests
Feature Launched: Oct 5, 2006
About: Weddingbee contests and giveaways.
Congratulations to the winner PurpleHaze79!
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Today we have a giveaway for a set of 10 custom tiny text bowls from the ever popular Paloma’s Nest! Currently on sale for $160, this set has been popular with brides who have been gifting these to their entire bridal party, including readers, officiants, parents and more.
To enter this contest please tell us: who would you gift your text bowls to? You have until 12am EST tonight to enter. And of course you can still enter the Kathlin Argiro Bridesmaid Dress Giveaway! Good luck! 
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Mrs. Tiramisu, Annapolis, MD/Maine
Age and Occupation: 26, Healthcare
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Project Manager/Real Estate Management grad student
Engagement Date: May 15, 2007
Wedding Date: July, 2008
Blogging Since: March 4, 2008
Venue: Oceanfront lawn and tent
About Me: I was born and raised in Maine, now living in Annapolis, Maryland and planning a hometown wedding from afar. I’m nothing short of obsessed with wedding planning, and am loving the do-it-yourself madness that has now taken over my life! As for me, I’m a craft-loving, martini-drinking, girly-girl who loves traveling, photography, my schnauzer, and above all, spending time with Mr. Tiramisu.
Photographer: Samantha Warren Weddings
Cannot Recommend Highly Enough!
If you’ve been following along with any of my wedding recap posts, then you already know that I am very much in love with the photos taken by our amazing photographer, Sam. She gave us over twelve hundred photos that together tell the story of our wedding day beautifully. It’s hard to pick favorites, but I’d have to say the ones I love the most are the photos she took of Mr. Tiramisu and me, all the great detail shots, and the wonderful shots of our guests enjoying themselves. A lot of the very sweet comments that you all left on my recap posts mention how much emotion there is in the photos. I think a lot of that has to do with Sam and her great eye for capturing the reactions and interactions of the people she photographs. If you want your wedding captured in a beautiful photojournalistic style that will really help you relive the day every time you look through your photographs, please don’t hesitate to contact Sam, who regularly travels all over New England and beyond.
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Mrs. Latte, Boston/NYC
Age and Occupation: 29, College Admissions Counselor
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, Elementary School Teacher
Engagement Date: August 23, 2008
Wedding Date: July 2009
Venue: Stage 6 at Steiner Studios
About Me: I am an East Coast girl marrying a West Coast boy. After 2 years of over 3,000 miles between us, Mr. Latte and I are looking forward to finally living in the same time zone/coast/city/home and living “normal couple” lives. I am a crafter at heart and enjoy dragging my friends into new craft projects. I love my Mac, baking cupcakes, wrapping presents, my BlackBerry, naps, good NY style pizza, Jack Bauer and of course, Mr. Latte. I love him a latte. :)
Head out of the gutter, hive! We’re talking suspenders here.
I know, not as exciting. I wasn’t excited either… until I saw pictures like these:
These guys crack me up
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Mrs. Apple Cider, New York/Charlotte
Age and Occupation: 27, Corporate Communications Manager
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Grad Student – Clinical Mental Health
Engagement Date: September 13, 2008
Wedding Date: October 2009
Venue: Banner Elk Winery & Blueberry Villa
About Me: I am a North Carolina girl with a New York City spirit. I love crafting, blogging, laughing and dreaming. I know every word to the Anne of Green Gables and Little Women movies. I own every single Martha Stewart Wedding Magazine and have been dreaming of weddings since I was little. I believe life is about doing what makes you happy. If you aren't happy re-evaluate what you are doing. You should never look back on your life and not be proud of what you are doing. If you want to travel - travel. If you want to sing - sing. If you want to start a company - start a company. If you want to blog – blog!
We are not having flower girls, but if we were I WOULD GO CRAZY (in a good way) picking out their outfits. I had the pleasure of checking out the Kico Kids store in Chelsea Market this weekend, fell in love with the designs, and instantly thought… flower girls! I am loving this adorable “shrug”.
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Mrs. Gloss, Boston/Maine
Age and Occupation: 24, Designer/soon-to-be Architect
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Systems Engineer
Engagement Date: May 23, 2008
Wedding Date: August 2009
Venue: SS Katahdin/Lakeside Tent
About Me: I don't like nickels or the skin that forms on pudding when it's in the fridge for too long. I couldn't live without Pantone markers, fountain soda (3/4 diet, ¼ regular Coke), run-on sentences, or ridiculously oversized sunglasses. I will try to DIY almost anything and am just OCD enough to make most of it work. I am truly excited about having all my family and friends together, becoming Mrs. Gloss, and having amazing photos to prove it!
The day after Mr. Gloss proposed I was online buying a Gocco and a ridiculous amount of supplies. I had been eying them after seeing the amazing invitations made by previous bees, and stalking the Gocco Flickr stream, like, every day. When it arrived on my doorstep I didn’t really have anything that I needed to mass-produce, but I couldn’t wait to try out my new toy! Enter PaperSource, a girls bestest friend. I walked out with waay too many flat and folded cards (with matching envelopes, of course) with the excuse that I would make amazingly cute note cards for a friend’s upcoming birthday.
Without further ado, my first Gocco experience:
To start I watched this fantastic explanatory video. I really think this lady has been exposed to way too many Gocco flashes. Although, I’m not going to lie – I enjoy her immensely and have found myself watching other PaperSource tutorials just to get more of her!
I made my design in Illustrator and had decided to start with something simple - but I’m also way cheap and wanted to expose two cards for the price of one. I haven’t printed the second card yet because I need to wash the first screen so it doesn’t get on the SECOND print. But this is the first one - inspired by Kate Spade, obviously!
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Mrs. Mascara, Chicago/Upper Michigan
Age and Occupation: 25, Biomedical Engineer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Process Engineer
Engagement Date: July 27, 2008
Wedding Date: September 2009
Venue: Catholic ceremony, reception at local armory
About Me: A lover of Mr. Mascara, crafting, baking, Gossip Girl, diet soda, and all things wedding. A Yooper girl somehow displaced in the Chicago suburbs, planning a wedding from a distance, and counting down the days until I marry my best friend.
The story of how we found our photographer is slightly atypical, so I thought I would share.
When I first discovered that wedding blogs existed, I came across a destination wedding blog in which two generous photographers were giving away their skills for free to one lucky couple that was having a destination wedding. They were looking for some more entries, so I figured I’d give it a shot. We had nothing to lose, right? So I sent them an application telling them the details of our wedding, and the story of how the fiance and I came to be. Then I waited, thinking that I’d never hear about it.
To my surprise, I received an email back a few days later, asking for more information about the wedding and if we could chat on the phone for a bit. Of course I gave her the info, and we had a nice chat about what I was looking for in a photographer.
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Mrs. Joey, Seattle
Age and Occupation: 28, Project Administrator for Public Health NGO
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 30, High School History Teacher
Engagement Date: June 24, 2008
Wedding Date: August 2009
Venue: Eastside Catholic Chapel and Lake Union Cafe
About Me: I'm a Seattle girl through and through except for the fact that I don't drink coffee. I love my job most of the time because I get to travel and work with brilliant people who are trying to prevent Malaria. I love DIY projects of all sorts, cooking, and watching sports. I'd wear anything at Anthropologie and could spend all day on Etsy. I love to travel but shouldn't because I always get myself into unbelievable situations!
Like many people, I’ve struggled with my weight my entire life. I’m 5’ 1.5″ (yes, the half inch is important) and at my heaviest, I was about 175 pounds. I’m sure part of it has to do with genetics, some with bad eating habits (lots of rice as a child), but a lot of it was because I didn’t work out much. I had asthma as a kid, and once had an attack so bad it kept me in bed for a month. After that, my Mom was hesitant to let me get involved in too much physical activity. I didn’t fight her hesitation.
In the last 10 years, my weight has yo-yoed quite a bit. My first significant weight loss happened at 18 years old in Russia during a study abroad semester. While everyone was gaining 5 to 10 pounds, I lost 25 pounds not doing anything in particular. I’m sure it was the change in diet and all the extra walking I was doing. I didn’t feel any different, but my clothes were looser.
I gained about 10 pounds back, but still I had lost quite a bit of weight overall. When I got back, I started dabbling in the gym, but nothing serious. I’d ride a recumbent bike or hit the Stairmaster while I read for my classes.
Towards the end of my first trip to Russia. Check out my eyebrows! And my chins…
My second big weight loss again came in Russia.
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Mrs. Deviled Egg, Pittsburgh
Age and Occupation: 27, Public Relations
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Accounting
Engagement Date: December 24, 2007
Wedding Date: May, 2009
Blogging Since: October 21, 2008
Venue: Historic auditorium and meeting hall in one of Pittsburgh's commuter cities
About Me: I am obsessed with all things crafty, especially scrapbooking, knitting, jewelry-making & cake decorating. I also love being an aunt, wrapping presents, watching football (Go Steelers!), shopping at yard sales and consignment stores, procrastinating, singing and learning to play the guitar. When it comes to wedding planning, I'm excited about working on DIY projects and finding creative ways to stay under budget. Of course, nothing is more exciting to me than knowing that the wonderful Mr. Deviled Egg will be my husband.
Thanks to all of you who expressed support and encouragement when you commented on my post regarding making my own wedding cake. As a few mentioned (and I agree!), decorating fake tiers isn’t exactly the same as decorating a real cake, but I do think some skill is needed to make the real cake tier we are incorporating look the as close as possible to the fake tiers that are comprising the bulk of the cake.
With the wedding just over 2 months away, I thought it would be a good idea to try out the DIY cake decorating and see if we could produce a cake worthy of being the centerpiece of the wedding reception. My sister, Jessica, and I set out to do a cake trial over the weekend and, as promised, here is a blog post to tell you all about how it went.
First, we started by making the fondant. The recipe I used is called Marshmallow Fondant and you can read about it on this website. Basically, you take a whole bag of mini marshmallows and put them in a bowl, sprinkle them with a couple tablespoons of water, and melt it all in the microwave.
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Mrs. Martini, New Jersey
Age and Occupation: 30, Telecom by day, Superhero by night
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 32, Investments & Finance by day, Hip hop dancer by night
Engagement Date: May 24, 2008
Wedding Date: March, 2009
Blogging Since: August 18, 2008
Venue: The Venetian
About Me: Things that make me happy: Haribo Happy Cola gummies, TV shows on DVD, buying books although I never read them, 80’s rock ballads, ramen, and of course Mr. Martini! He is the calm, logical and number crunching finance guy. I can’t even multiply double digit numbers in my head and I am so indecisive that trying to choose between light green or slightly lighter green paper stresses me out (Wedding planning is going to be soooo much fun). We both find great joy in nabbing great seats at the movie theater for a blockbuster movie on opening weekend, and we are both absolutely crazy about snowboarding. And he loves to cook, I love to eat!
It’s no surprise that wedding planning, in a nutshell, has been pretty crazy. I wouldn’t really say I was super busy at first, but I was still pulling my hair out about insignificant things. All my friends have been so supportive and they have been offering their help to me unconditionally. The only problem is, I don’t know what to ask for. I don’t know how to delegate.
And so I spent most of my days stressing about nothing and everything, and not getting anything done.
Mrs. Bee has always said that hiring a day of coordinator was the best thing she’d ever done for her own wedding. I considered hiring one, but Mr. Martini was pretty confident that we would be able to do it without a DOC. He actually helped coordinate my best friend’s wedding a year ago. Not only is he fascinated with the wedding industry, he thought it was a great opportunity to get an idea of what it would be like to plan his own wedding someday. Fortunately for him, he is super organized, focused, and has a mild case of OCD. Unfortunately for me, I can’t concentrate on one thing for more than five minutes, and Mr. Martini lost interest in the little details of the wedding once all the big things like venues and vendors were taken care of (curses!! I was hoping he would plan the whole darn thing. Is that too much to ask?). So, I was left alone with my unfortunate predicament - absolute terror and wedding anxiety.
Mrs. Bee knows me well, and she knows that I have a huge problem asking for help.
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Mrs. Stiletto, Chicago
Age and Occupation: 26, Non-Profit/Fundraising
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Engineer and Photographer
Engagement Date: March 2, 2008
Wedding Date: September 2009
Venue: The 19th Century Club
About Me: My fiance and I love living in the city of Chicago with our cats Basil and Linus, and vow to never move to the suburbs if we can possibly avoid it! We’ve poured ourselves into planning a wedding that reflects our personal style - modern and high contrast with a vintage twist. Blogging keeps me creative, baking keeps me happy, and grande nonfat no foam sugar free vanilla lattes keep me sane.
Mr S and I love the companionship of our cats, Linus and Basil. They were both rescues from animal control, and they get along better than we ever could have hoped. As far as kitty life goes, theirs is pretty sweet - the expensive natural food, full reign of the house, a lot of lap time, and that sweet kitty condo you see in the picture below, purchased for them right before we bought our own condo. Their life is good.
However, as much was we love our furballs, they don’t respond well to walking on a leash. Go figure, right? That kitty stubbornness shines right through. So, we started thinking about getting a dog.
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Mrs. Spring Roll, Tampa
Age and Occupation: 23, Certified Pharmacy Technician
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Concert Photographer
Engagement Date: May 1, 2008
Wedding Date: March 2009
Blogging Since: September 16, 2008
Venue: Beach Social Hall
About Me: I'm the stereotypical girl who enjoys sewing, baking, and decorating. I am blessed to share my life with Mr. Spring Roll and our two shih tzu's, Isabella and Gabriella. Hello Kitty, musicals, Target, and Chick-fil-a are a few of my favorite things. I have a fear of fish and Freddy Krueger. Planning our wedding has become a huge part of my life, and I love every minute of it!
Up until a few weeks ago, I didn’t want to have a bachelorette party. You see, I’m the girl who is in bed before 10 every night. Going out isn’t usually my idea of fun; however, I decided that I might as well go out, and have a good time with the girls. Let’s just say that I had a good time, and then some.
The night started off at my sister’s house, where everyone met for food, drinks, and a Pleasure Party. Upon entry, each girl was given a “dog bone” (as one girl thought they were) lei, and big faux diamond rings.
My mom and FMIL with our blown-up friend, Big Willy
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Beehive
Feature Launched: Aug 31, 2006
About: A forum for readers to post questions and get feedback from the hive, aka the weddingbee community.
March 17th, 2009 @ 2:06 pm by Beehive
I am getting married on May 23 and I have 4 bridesmaids, none of whom are local. I have just found out that they are not planning to host a shower for me before the wedding. As far as I can tell, my Maid of Honor is falling down in her duties, and everyone else is following suit.
Am I wrong to feel hurt and upset? I know that the bridesmaids aren’t OBLIGED to throw the bride a shower, but still. I am totally sad that I am not going to have the chance to celebrate my wedding with the important women in my life. For me, it isn’t about the gifts, it is about the chance to spend time with women I respect and admire and get their wisdom for a successful married life.
So, hive, lay it on me. Do I have any right to be upset?
LB2009
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